When you launch the new Tweetbot for the first few times, there is certainly a bit of shell shock at just how different it is. One of my favorites is tapping the profile image up to to bring up the account switcher - the individual account pictures and names slide in from the right and bounce off the left margin. When it comes to whimsy and personality, though the heavy-handed design aesthetic is now mostly gone, there are fun animations and bounce effects to nearly every element of the app. Even at the very smallest setting for dynamic system text size, it is still too big for me in the Tweetbot timeline. However, I find that size of text to be too big in Tweetbot. I prefer my system text (such as for emails and Safari’s “Reader mode”) to be just one notch above the tiniest. Personally, I find this to be unfortunate. (This feature alone is worth the price to upgrade.)Īlso, Tweetbot uses dynamic text from the size you set in the iOS system settings. The new Tweetbot supports background updating in iOS 7, which means that when you launch it your tweets are already there waiting for you. This app has all the design elements of a native iOS 7 app, but with a unique twist all its own. Tapping on images blurs brings them up full-screen while the background goes blurry. The main timeline view now sports circle avatars and a white, gradient-free background. Save for the icons, the new Tweetbot is a radical departure from the look Tapbots has become world famous for. It has fast and smooth scrolling, it has clever animations all throughout, swipe or tap-and-hold to act on a tweet, etc.īut, be it familiar, it is still an all new app. This new version has all the underpinnings of what has made the app great since its 1.0 release in April 2011. It’s a starting over, not only for the app itself, but for the Tapbots’ brand.įor this new app, Mark and Paul had to out-Tweetbot Tweetbot. The new Tweetbot is a ground-up re-design and re-thinking of what is one of the most popular Twitter clients out there. These design elements have been inextricably tied to the signature and brand of the Tapbots app lineup. The dark grey industrial materials, the gradients, noise textures, and the playful graphics and icons. Long have I been a fan of Mark Jardine’s heavy-handed design aesthetic.